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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (2): 217–246.
Published: 01 June 2008
...Ambreen Hai HI Forster and the Fantastic: The Covert Politics of The Celestial Omnibus Ambreen Hai each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down. The upper personality has a name It is con­ scious and alert, it does things like...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (3): 309–336.
Published: 01 September 2016
... by Barry Hines, James Kelman, Irvine Welsh, and David Peace, among others, I trace the destruction of a community-based form of masculinity, focusing on an evolution from earlier, more naturalistic treatments of the era into two divergent strains of late depictions: individualist, fantastic stories like...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 405–430.
Published: 01 December 2020
... inspiration vies with the beleaguered political climate of post-Versailles, interwar London. In the novel, West weighs the aggressively phallocratic and colonizing fantasies of the politician and imperialist Arnold Condorex against Harriet Hume’s extempore fairy tales, latent with fantastic subversion...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (1): 39–71.
Published: 01 March 2001
... raphy, a study of the art of fiction, a work of feminist social criticism, a revisionist literary history and the fantastically reinvented life history of Woolf’s friend” (xi). The sketch’s three chapters each offer a view ofViolet’s character that balance, in varying...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (3): 494–503.
Published: 01 September 2013
... for granted how that tradition has al- ready done the important work of legitimating the popular as an object of study with powerful analyses from myriad perspectives. That tradition effectively allows Saler to cover an expansive world of fantastic materials without belaboring the question of whether...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 569–595.
Published: 01 December 2001
... and offers the most inclusive view of modern India, yet it cannot help 576 Postcolonial Lack and Aesthetic Promise in The M oor’s Last Sigh but document the decline of India’s idealistic pluralism. Her painting ca­ reer begins with a huge fantastical mural of historical, religious, and cul­ tural...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 209–231.
Published: 01 June 2015
... in this early essay Jolas theorized the aesthetic work of spoken patois and creolized languages, his own creative contributions to transition in this period neglect these spoken forms for fantastical fusions of his own invention. Inspired by what Marjorie Perloff calls Joycean “language games” (2004, 91), 13...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (2): 221–244.
Published: 01 June 2010
... recently her fiction has tended to re-engage with realism, this has often been in combination with fantastical or fabular modes.2 But consistently underwriting these transformations in style has been a trenchant and prescient view of contemporary Western society: a direct examination...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 150–170.
Published: 01 June 2000
... by their conventions; bouncing from town to town to evade legal responsibility for his actions, he likewise eludes the less rigid but still present rules of generic structures. Critics have argued for the pre­ dominance of various genres within the novel—from the fairy tale to the romance to the fantastic—all...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (1): 42–60.
Published: 01 March 2006
... the narrator wants us to see as the fantastic insu­ larity of the local residents. While world financial markets tumble (“the Dow Jones dipped two hundred points the townspeople are absorbed by local romance and familial continuity—oblivious, it would seem to, to the absurdity of their “banner headline...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 403–404.
Published: 01 December 2020
... extravagance of Harriet Hume , like the stylistic extravagance of Woolf ’s Orlando , is steeped in the cultural medium that it dissects. It is a modernism that is “part conflict, part dance.” Even as it “deflates the colonizing impulse,” it “plunders its tropes to enrich the novel’s fantastic backdrop...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 437–461.
Published: 01 December 2010
.... The street haunter reflects, “life which is so fantastic cannot be altogether tragic. They do not grudge us, we are musing, our prosperity” (26). While the speaker’s identity is dissolved temporarily, the external appearances of others become the starting point from which to imagine their lives. When...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2012
...” (11) enabled a rebellion against established models of language and literature. O’Hara’s rebellious gesture was not to approximate and usurp black languages and modes, but to focus on the fantastical element of primitivism—to recognize the primitive as a white fantasy, and to explore its...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (4): 444–466.
Published: 01 December 2001
... such as Catherine Sinclair’s Holiday House and Frederick Marryat’s Masterman Ready, and also reveals a debt to the fantastical, non­ sensical situations portrayed in popular British fairy tales and nursery rhymes.6 Swift’s novel, similarly, is influenced by popular British oral or chapbook fairy...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 157–162.
Published: 01 March 2020
..., and funny. It has a plot (it has several of them) that moves right along, and it has images so arresting one can happily turn them over in the mind by the hour. The sequence is fantastically layered, repaying attention to its smallest parts with extravagant interest. Even by Merrill’s standards...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (2): 225–232.
Published: 01 June 2023
... illustrates his theory of kinship more fully in the next chapter, where his attention shifts to magic realism and Salman Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children (1981). Arguing that “disability often lies at the core of magic realist narratives, which present it in fantastic or surprising ways” (65), Krentz...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
... for a trinity of “capital vices” (608): “ Some bone-laziness but mostly DOLDRUMS, proto-despair, great-poets-die-young or at least unfulfilled like Coleridge & Co., all that crap” (607–8); “the opposite, fantastic hysterical labour, accumulation, proliferation” (608); and “over-ambitiousness.” The first...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 264–291.
Published: 01 September 2002
... what to think o f these ideas follows closely behind, carried most prominently in the question o f what to think o f the line, or “visto,” but present also in many o f the novel’s factual and fantastic, tangential and strangely germane subplots, incidents, and mysteries. However...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (3-4): 472–491.
Published: 01 December 2011
... relation between men” assumes “for them, the fantastic form of a relation between things” (165); and indeed, Brigid suggests as much when she adds that with this fruit “there is no more mystification of labor, no more of a world in which the object arrives by magic—scrubbed, clean, no past, all...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (4): 453–469.
Published: 01 December 2000
... and indigenous features in the writing of Ackroyd and Carter (168). Fokkema emphasizes the gothic and uncanny in both authors; feminist critics (Johnson, Vallorani) stress grotesque, gothic, and fantastic fea­ tures in New Eve. Some reviewers of Hawksmoor criticized it as confusing or morally repellent...